{"id":109229,"date":"2016-01-18T08:21:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T06:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=109229"},"modified":"2016-01-18T08:21:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T06:21:47","slug":"watch-zuma-has-a-golden-toilet-at-nkandla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/109229\/watch-zuma-has-a-golden-toilet-at-nkandla\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: &#8216;Zuma has a golden toilet at Nkandla&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Youtube clip entitled: <em>Zuma in the eyes of a child<\/em>, asks two South African kids of their opinion of Jacob Zuma as the current president, and his Nkandla homestead.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, one of the kids says that Zuma used tax money to build a R246 million mansion called Nkandla, adding later in the clip that it isn&#8217;t even that impressive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I expected it to be a double story, but when I look at it, its just a rondavel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Inside this house you have a gold toilet,&#8221; one child says. &#8220;A golden toilet, and he buys it with our tax money,&#8221; says the other child.<\/p>\n<p>A survey published late last year showed that president Zuma\u2019s approval rating has dropped by as much as 28%\u00a0\u2013\u00a0from 64% in 2011 to 36% in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s approval rating is at its lowest level since 2000, according to the survey, published by research firm Afrobarometer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0pd7ydu8sKY\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on President Zuma<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/105063\/zuma-approval-rating-at-worst-ever-levels\/\">Zuma approval rating at worst-ever levels<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/109203\/criticism-against-me-is-unfair-zuma\/\">Criticism against me is unfair: Zuma<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Youtube video shows two South African children saying what they think of Jacob Zuma as the current president &#8211; and his Nkandla homestead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":106747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9188,26],"class_list":["post-109229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-afrobarometer","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109229"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109241,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109229\/revisions\/109241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}